Sleeping With The Gods of Love 与爱神共眠

艺人: Dagda
风格: New Age/Celtic
日期: July 31, 2001

Dagda 这张2001年发行的《Sleeping With The Gods Of Love 与爱神共眠》全名是《Celtic Trance II: Sleeping With The Gods Of Love 迷醉凯尔特2:与爱神共眠》，是他们的“Celtic Trance 迷醉凯尔特”系列的第二辑，总共由11 个关于爱的单曲组成。专辑的标题已经说明了内在涵义。其中，"Delilah"是圣经中关于萨姆森背叛的一支歌。其它的，象"Hold Me Now"和"Gods of Love Live Here"，非常惬意地享受。同时，"Sailing By"和"Spirits Fly"，将会给你带来难忘的记忆。总之，它们都围饶着上帝与爱、生活热情的主题来讴歌，并且每首歌曲都表现了对神灵的崇敬或者对命运的奋斗。这些音乐结合了爱尔兰传统的民间乐器，例如口簧的呼啸声和uilleann管，以及钢琴，还有电子乐、鼓乐。第10首曲子以马丁·罗兰的笛子吹奏为特色，充分表明了这张专辑是张优秀的民族音乐。充满灵性、自然清脆的艾琳·奥尼尔之声最能抓住听众的心，她的声音和这张专辑同样迷人。

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Dagda, the group name assumed by keyboardist-producers Reg Keating and Phillip O'Reilly, likes to associate itself with the Celtic, mystic, and trance scenes, yet discerning ears will more likely align its lightly grooved, instrumental-female vocal mix with the easy-listening wing of New Age. In fact, Keating and O'Reilly may have taken it a little too easy on this, their fourth collaboration.

The group's picture-painting instrumental work never seems to break the gravitational pull exerted by the thin, storybooklike theme conveyed in eight (out of 11) softly cooed vocal selections. Stronger musical ideas are at work on Celtic Trance and Underworld, Dagda's preceding discs. Still, with its minimized grooves and subdued Celtic textures (Uilleann pipes and whistles pop up only sporadically), Sleeping with the Gods of Love may work for listeners in search of a dreamy, innocuous, and low-key audio backdrop to candlelit evenings. --Terry Wood